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Man Charged With Slapping Baby on Flight and Using N-Word Now ‘No Longer Employed’

Feb. 18, 2013 10:48am Jonathon M. Seidl

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday.

Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, of Hayden, Idaho, is no longer an employee of AGC Aerospace and Defense, Composites Group, Daniel Keeney of DPK Public Relations confirmed Sunday night.

Al Haase, president and CEO of AGC, issued a statement early Sunday that, while not referring to Hundley by name, called reports of behavior by one of its executives on recent personal travel “offensive and disturbing” and said he “is no longer employed with the company.” Keeney would not say whether Hundley was fired or resigned. Hundley was president of AGC’s Unitech Composites and Structures unit.

Hundley was charged last week in federal court in Atlanta with simple assault for allegedly slapping the 2-year-old boy during the Feb. 8 flight. His attorney, Marcia Shein, of Decatur, Ga., said Saturday that Hundley will plead not guilty. The charge carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail.

Joe Rickey Hundley Fired From Job after Allegedly Slapping Baby on Flight

Jessica Bennett said a passenger slapped her son and called him a racial slur during a flight. (Image source: KARE-TV)

Shein did not immediately returned messages seeking comment left Sunday evening by The Associated Press. Hundley does not have a listed phone number.

The boy’s mother, Jessica Bennett, 33, told the FBI their flight was on final descent into Atlanta when her 19-month-old son started to cry due to the altitude change. Hundley “told her to shut that (N-word) baby up,” FBI special agent Daron Cheney said in a sworn statement. She said Hundley then slapped him in the face, scratching the boy below his right eye and causing him to scream even louder.

Bennett told Twin Cities television stations on Saturday that the incident has caused her family a great deal of trauma and that her son, Jonah, had been outgoing but had turned apprehensive of strangers.

Hundley became increasingly obnoxious and appeared intoxicated during the flight and complained that her son was too big to sit on her lap, she said.

“He reeked of alcohol,” Bennett told KARE-TV. “He was belligerent, and I was uncomfortable.”

Bennett said she was shocked by the racial slur she says Hundley used when Jonah started crying.

“And I said, `What did you say?’ because I couldn’t believe that he would say that,” she told WCCO-TV. “He fell onto my face and his mouth was in my ear and he said it again but even more hateful. And he’s on my face, so I pushed him away.”

Bennett and her husband are white, while Jonah, whom they adopted, is black.

“We wish to emphasize that the behavior that has been described is contradictory to our values, embarrassing and does not in any way reflect the patriotic character of the men and women of diverse backgrounds who work tirelessly in our business,” Haase said in his statement.

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Comments (113)

ajaynejr
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:47pm
I think every Airline should carry Duct Tape on board. It keeps drunken or self righteous louts in their seats so they can’t go around slapping children or getting into the faces of flight crew or other passengers..

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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:44pm
  “Man Charged With Slapping Baby on Flight and Using N-Word Now ‘No Longer Employed’”
  
  TheBlaze … what’s an “N-Word”? Is “n-word” one of those foreign language oddball words with the dashes and the accents? Or is it something more insidious … like … POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?
  
  PRESIDENT: “You’ve got something against the English language, Colonel?”
  COL.CASEY: “No, sir.”
  PRESIDENT: “Then speak it plainly if you will.”
  -”Seven Days In May” (1964)
  
  If the guy allegedly/actually said “nìġger”, then report it that he allegedly/actually said “nìġger”.
  
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kadster01
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:32pm
If the drunk slapper was black, no one would be making a big deal out of the use of the “n-word,” and we all know it.

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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:45pm
  But he wasn’t black. Was he?
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:20pm
  Nope, he wasn’t. Are you missing my point? Double standard anyone? When blacks are killing blacks at a MUCH higher clip than whites killing blacks, I’d say hate speech can also apply within the races. Wouldn’t you?
  
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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:42pm
  Point? There was no point to your statement. It was the typical vapidly, crass non sequitur ‘if’. Now you’re deviating to murder rates. Did you even read the article?
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:06pm
  There was a point. I should know, I was the one making it. But, as predicted, double standards are most passionately embraced by those who practice them, and deny them.
  
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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 5:03pm
  Acknowledged and disregarded.
  
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- Baerlin
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:22pm
  I have the sad feeling that you have no idea what you’re talking about. Slapping children is wrong, Whether black or white. I do discipline my children but getting physical with someone elses children. That is a line that should not be crossed. That is ultimately the point of the story. Using the N-word is just showing the condition of the mans heart
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:24pm
  It was my mistake to waste my time engaging with you, Galt, but riddle me this: It’s fairly obvious you’re quite impressed with your brilliance, so why would you spend any of your time responding to people you apparently believe to be beneath your intelligence? This is the comments section at TheBlaze. We don’t have the power to change anything here, not even someone’s mind. You come across as very smug, self-important, and lacking in basic social skills. In other words, you’re a rude, sarcastic jerk who had the gall to call me “crass.”
  
  Recognizing the futility of bantering back and forth with the likes of you, acknowledged and retained.
  
  BTW, I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged” twice. You are definitely no John Galt.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:23pm
  @kadstero1
  You’re right. We would have never heard of the story if it had been the other way around. But an old, drunk white man who’s an “executive”. and the story will go on and on until he is unemployed.If the guy was old and black or Muslim,and smacked a white kid, the race/religion or even his profession would not have been mentioned. And he’d probably keep his job.Of course he should not have done it, and he was wrong for doing it, but why didn’t the plane crew do their job and keep an eye on him. How did he board the plane? Were they serving him drinks?????
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:22am
  If that had been my child or if I had even witnessed that demon smack that baby, the story would be more like…”wild Irish woman attacks evil racist over Atlanta”.
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:50pm
In other news.. It’s now ok to throw disabled war veterans on the back of the air-bus.

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charliehunter
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:11pm
A lot of people are getting fed up with holier than thou attitudes and self rightgeous protection of blacks. Watch commercials lately, the only person depicted as smart is the person of color, if you can even find a white in a commercial. For some reason the leftists seem to think we should all love their kids as much as they do. Screaming kids are an inconvienience and a sign of rude parents. He should not have slapped the little bugger, but the use of the so called “N” word is legal and protected, and used constantly by the protected class…blacks. In closing…what does his actions have to do with his job? When Clinton got caught getting Lewinski’s we were told his personal life nad no reflectiuon on his job. What say you now self rightgeous left?

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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:31pm
  It’s almost ever commercial and every movie you watch!
  
  It’s disgusting! And it’s why I hate the manipulators of our Media soo so much.
  
  Yet only a fraction of my friends even see it and only a smaller fraction are even concerned.. extremely frustrating.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:31pm
  CHUCK…
  
  Let me get this straight… you are advocating for the use of the “n-word” because it “is legal and protected, and used constantly by the protected class…blacks.”?
  
  Your strategy is to stoop to their level?
  
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- beardedjesse
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:40pm
  This is not a political story genius…slapping a child in the side of the head because it is crying on a flight is wrong. Your sad attempt to politicize this story doesn’t even make sense & only serves to make you look like an ignorant fool. Thanks for making the Left’s point carry more water that “conservatives are ALL racist white people” (which isn’t true might I add)…I’m Conservative as anyone can possibly get but don’t mistake that for ignorant like people probably mistake you for all the time.
  
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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:57pm
  “Holier than thou protection of blacks?” Are you serious? The last time I checked blacks and other minorities were far more likely to be discriminated against, denied opportunities, and targeted by law enforcement. This “man’s” drunken behavior has everything to do with his job. He was the president of a company–the professional and moral example of leadership–meaning that, like Clinton, he was held to the highest ethical standards. This “man’s” behavior was abhorrent and beyond reprehensibility and should be loathed by every sane individual. You should be ashamed for trying to justify assaulting a toddler by citing trivial television ads and the the legal status of racial slander.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:00pm
  beardedjesse
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:40pm
  This is not a political story
  
  Somebody give that boy a damn quarter! He really means it!
  
  I’m not racist either. .I promise. I love blacks and Jews more than anyone in the world.. I cried when I saw roots and swindler’s list.. I mean it.. I love em the most!
  
  lol You’re pathetic.
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:06pm
  The man is a hateful monster and unfit to be around children. He would not have said what he said nor slapped the kid if the kid had been in the care of a Black couple. He just would not have gone there, so he is a coward to boot.
  
  As for the media trashing White Americans all day long, I also have noted this to the complete amazement of my family. Its all day long and nearly every commercial you watch. The people are constantly depicted as inept, idiotic, uninformed and just absolutely inhuman. Here are some recent examples that come to mind.
  
  Beastiality: Pig is out on a date with a White girl who is itching for some action but the pig is to caught up in his online pursuits. Switch, that scenario around and make the girl a person of color. You could not do that and it would have been met with outrage but yet it flys when the person is white.
  
  Childrens cartoons. There are two separate cartoons depicting the white child or person as a pig. All the other kids are identifiable as to be human and are of color, but when I say where is the white kid, he shows up in the form of a pig with human clothes. They beat this into our minds at all levels.
  
  A white father and white son are playing catch on the front lawn and its a VW commerical OBTW. The father throws the ball like a complete sissy (exaggerated) to his kid and teaches the kid thats how to throw properly. Its complete nonsense and has no place in trying to sell the darn car.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:27pm
  ChiefGeorge: One of the more blatant imo is the State Farm commercial where the pretty white girl approaches a black man using his cell phone app to discuss the internet then her ugly french model date comes up and takes her away.. The obvious meaning was she should have went for the black guy and not trusted the internet..
  
  regardless one of countless examples but my question to you George is this just random or planned? See my post below as well.. You know who I say is behind this and that it is well thought out orchestrated and planned..
  
  When will you see the most obvious George? Why are you so blinded to the truth?
  
  The story is much much deeper than what it appears to be on the surface.
  
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- Alice P M
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:37pm
  Response to CharlieHunter, although it seems off key to relate this to politics, there is indeed a connection. I’ve seen the same thing develop over the last 20 years. There are many more who have noticed it. One could write a thesis. How does it relate to this woman letting her child run wild for hours? Probably not a direct connection to what happened on that flight. But it is the reason the news media trolls for incidents like this, to denigrate white people because it makes them money. For every single incident where the white person is the perpetrator, there are a dozen where the black is the criminal. That is either not reported, or kept to the local news.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:06pm
  Alice P M
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:37pm
  Response to CharlieHunter
  
  See my article below and I’ll ask you like I asked George.. Is this just coincidence or is it planned? Actually you said it was about the money.. I don’t think so.
  
  White’s have become color blind through 60-70 yrs of propaganda; however, others have not.. it’s like going to a War with no guns.. lol
  
  Race is still the biggest story never told. I’ve recently been reading a some of Lincoln’s views on Race and Colonization along with the pre Civil War North.. Pretty amazing stuff and one can only conclude that the Civil War was certainly not fought over the plight of the *****. lol What an incredible snow job they’ve done.
  
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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Alice, there is nothing political about this incident or its media coverage. One could write a thesis on how you people habitually interject race and politics into every conversation. I think you’re trying too hard to portray white people as victims of media bias. Not every burglary, murder, or assault deserves media coverage. I postulate that nearly 85 percent of the criminal news articles that I read involve blacks as the suspects. Therefore, if there is a conscious media bais attempting to sway social opinion, then it would undoubtedly be in favor of white people. Despite all of this, you seem to overlook the fact that a drunken adult male physically assaulted a child. It doesn’t matter if the child ran wild for hours.
  
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- Alice P M
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Galt, a few months after the GeorgeZimmerman/TrayvonMartin news, several black men followed a white woman home from the store. They forced their way into their apt by gunpoint, gangraped the woman in front of her husband for hours, shot the husband in the head, poured clorox down the woman’s throat and slowly suffocated her. In court they said they committed this crime because they wanted to rape a white woman. Zimmerman/Martin was still in the news when this happened. This never made national headlines. A year later the black racist murderers were possibly going to be released on a technicality. The KKK protested this miscarriage of justice. The news reported the protest as a KKK hate march. They never mentioned the underlying crime that was being protested. Some senile old man slaps a black child and it’s national news, but truly heinous crimes committed by blacks against whites are kept low key. It is about politics. If the liberal media reported in a fair and balanced way, they would drive brainwashed liberals away from the Democrat party.
  
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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:02pm
  Alice, that case made national news. I remember it vividly. It happened in 2007–way before Trayvon Martin was killed. The perpetrators are serving life sentences; I’m upset that they weren’t killed. Anyhow, I do not subscribe to any notions which may support the assinine theory of a anti-white media bias.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:22pm
  John_Galt84
  . I postulate that nearly 85 percent of the criminal news articles that I read involve blacks as the suspects.
  
  Perhaps that is because they commit that percentage of crimes.. Far more than their proportions anyway.
  
  I idid not see the story Alice alluded to eventhough I follow the news very closely including alternative news.. There’s definitely a coverup in order to promote multiculturalism in America because if the avg white man and woman knew the truth it would be outright rejected no questions asked.. So they must manipulate the data and promote it.
  
  It’s as simple as that.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:26pm
  @JohnGalt, I generally don’t think of it very much, but to a small degree, you might be right. My husband is black, but we don’t usually see discrimination because when you meet us we look more like a typical Christian family than your stereotypical “ghetto” black family. How you portray yourself does make a difference in how people treat you.
  
  Anyway, we’ve had two very odd traffic stops over the years. I didn’t think that it could be racial until you pointed it out, but it’s possible.
  
  Once, we were driving home from spending the 4th of July with our friends. The police stopped us, saying that a crime had been committed in the area (their neighborhood wasn’t the best). They wanted to make sure we had nothing to do with it. I had never been stopped for something like that before.
  
  The second time, the police pulled us over for a burnt out license plate light (I didn’t know that was even an infraction). They asked us all sorts of stupid questions, like did we have a suspended license, had we been drinking (just soda), were we on drugs, etc. It was the stupidest thing; it was just like he was pulling us over on a bogus charge to make sure that we weren’t idiots or something. After he determined that we weren’t idiots, he let us go (not that that would have held up in court). I’ve never been pulled over for something that dumb when I was by myself.
  
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- Alice P M
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:43pm
  Try this one Galt http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2012/04/08/blacks_can_murder_whites_and_it_wont_make_national_news/page/full/ If the link doesn’t work just Google Tyrone Woodfork raped Mrs Strait. Underreported black on white crimes are too numerous to count.
  
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- John_Galt84
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 5:32pm
  “A coverup in order to promote multiculturalism in America?” Is everyone on this forum nuts? You probably believe that Sandy Hook and 9/11 were coverups, too. Perhaps State Farm insurance is involved as well.
  
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- khemetsma
  Posted on February 24, 2013 at 1:15pm
  If you are hunting Charlie the Unicorn, maybe in that world your comments would have some validity. But if you are talking about media outlets in the US you need a serious reality check. Without looking at the following statistics, pretty much everyone who watches TV, looks at magazines, and sees billboards knows you are so far off the mark with your comments that it would take a book length reply to bring you back. (If you were ever here). Stop it!
  
  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/210758.html
  
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pfmpm
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:09pm
Don’t excuse this guy for his reaction. But remember that this woman let her child run wild up and down the isles during the entire flight. She refused to control the child or make any attempt to minimize it’s negative effect on the other passengers. I know it can be impossible to stop a child from crying on an aircraft, I’ve been there with my own. But this woman didn’t even try. She felt she was somehow special because she was raising a little Obama.

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- linearnonlinear
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:14pm
  I think every Airline should carry Duct Tape on board. It keeps the child in the seat and keeps the noise down.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:35pm
  Exactly the guy is a dirt bag. There is no excuse for what he did. But the parents caused the situation. The fact they even brought a 19 month old child onto a plane is ridiculous to begin with. The fact that you can’t possibly control their crying is exactly why they shouldn’t be on the plane. It’s not an excuse for being an inconsiderate moron.
  
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- Pittakos
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:46pm
  It’s called public transportation. If you don’t want to be bothered by other people’s children then lease your own plane.
  
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Exidor
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:09pm
Since the child is black, he used the N word and physically assaulted the kid, technically could this be a hate crime? If so, then he is screwed.

Either way, I hate drunk people. Especially on airplanes.

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Apple Bite
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:02pm
Something is off about this story. Where was Pops during this incident? He didn’t get up swinging at the guy? If you even so much as look at somebody’s kid the wrong way, a parent will come after you to protect that child. But I’m not reading that at all here…

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- SpeedGimp
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:59pm
  I was thinking the same exact thing. If it had been my kid, there were be mention of how the guy is in the hospital from the thorough ass beating I gave him.
  I’d like to think there’s more to this story, but these days it seems many people are not protective of their kids.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:07pm
  There’s a lot of reasons why you might want to travel without your spouse. If you watch the video on the other article, then you can see that he has “parents” in the plural. I’ve traveled without my husband several times. He sometimes can’t take much time off work, and I work online for myself, so my job is portable… so sometimes I’ll take the kids and visit my family, and he might come up later. It’s not a crime, nor does it imply that my family is not a traditional, two-parent family. We’ve been married for 14 years.
  
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Texan4ever
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:45am
If the man were Islamist he would be hailed as a hero. He’s just doing what every other Islamist man does to women and children.

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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:13pm
  My question to the Blaze followers and Beck groupies is why does FOX News feel the need to run this pathetic story 24/7? Is it ugly and is it racist? Yes it is but what’s the end result of it?
  
  Is it just to further alienate the intolerant white male from the mainstream of American politic? If this is not driven by a political agenda then why not run the innumerable stories of Black on White Murder and Rape which has reached epidemic proportions in the majority of America’s most urban centers or nowadays known as cesspools of filth and degradation?
  
  This shows you fellow conservatives that while FOX may be a little to the right of CNN and MSNBC they are not to be trusted and neither is Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Levine, Oreilly, or Limbaugh. They all preach Globalism and Multiculturalism no matter the consequences for they are all fed at the trough of Corporatism. Now I’m an Adam Smith Capitalist but that does not imply anything goes in the name of the bottom-line.
  
  Now on FEB 12, the website Council of Conservative Citizens ran a story about a brutal and vicious hate crime.. Simply incredibly demonic but FOX news, CNN, MSNBC do not feel the need to share such an event with their audience. Why? We all know why and that’s why I hold the Media in such contempt. If Justice is ever served in America then these people will have hell to pay.
  
  The headline reads “a pretty 13 yr old white child was brutally raped and murdered in Fair, Ca. The suspect is a 32 yr
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:01pm
  MorsiENgineer69, did he not make the aryan meeting and left you waiting and wanting? Jihad Jerk and SillySally will be along shortly to fluff you up again. Put on your best pocket protector and get the Jaeger out of the freezer for your boys.
  
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tropolis
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:38am
Learn a lesson righties. Free speech comes with consequences. You can use as much racial rhetoric as you want, just don’t whine when people react harshly. Consequences come with every action. The right likes to think they can just say anything and not expect anybody to react to it.

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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:45am
  Why is this only a lesson for “righties?” Get lost, troll.
  
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- drattastic
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:49am
  So you’ve somehow come to the conclusion that the drunk guy was a “righty” . Nice try numb nuts,now get back to the kitchen and get those dishes done before your wife gets home from work . She will let you know what else to think when she gets there.
  
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- WHISKY13
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:52am
  You’re projecting buddy… you’re describing left. any comments on lefty leaning cop killing msnbc loving serial killer Chris Donner??? .. thought so.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:02pm
  Really?……
  
  “You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.” -Senator Joe Biden
  
  “A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” -Spike Lee referring to Clarence Thomas
  
  “I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.”- Robert Byrd
  
  “White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek (homosexuals) ever got around to it.”- Rev. Al Sharpton
  
  “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,…I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” – Joe Biden
  
  “Obama is Electable Because he is Light Skinned with no (African) Dialect.” – Harry Reid
  
  ‘Hymietown.’ – Jesse Jackson describing New York City
  
  “Listen he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate” this is what’s been used against him, “but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” -Dan Rather
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:04pm
  and…..
  
  “I’ll have those (n-words) voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Lyndon Johnson!
  
  “A few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee.” Bill Clinton
  
  “I am not going to use the federal government’s authority deliberately to (evade) the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.”- Jimmy Carter
  
  “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”- Robert Byrd
  
  “You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.” — Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)
  
  Mahatma Gandhi “ran a gas station down in Saint Louis.” -Senator Hillary Clinton
  
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- AmericaMustBeFree
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:07pm
  I hate to say but he sounds more like a lefty.. C”mon get real.. its people like you and your Messiah that has divided a nation.. Tell us, who divides.. certainly not Jesus Christ.. but clearly Lucifer does and has, by using any means or person he can lay hands upon! What ever happened to us all.. we were all American’s, we all had different idea’s, dreams, wants.. and for the most part we did not look down our noses at those who had.. I pity anyone who purposely divides us. We are about to enter the times that try mens souls.. and we can choose good or evil!
  
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Inform
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:34am
Why is it so trendy for white couples to adopt black babies?

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- willingtoupe
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:36am
  Because they know the kingdom of Heaven is waiting for them automatically.
  
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- pfmpm
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:04pm
  Not adopted. She was on a PC trend and some black daddy took advantage of her stupidity and got her pregnant, then dumped her.
  
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- willingtoupe
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:15pm
  @PFMPM Better to be dumped than to blessed by Gods’ rape. Even more so, she is pro-life regardless. Is there a problem with that? Oh I guess because the baby is black.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:15pm
  I think the real question is “why are so many black babies abandoned by their birth parents?”
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Uninform. I do not think it is trendy, just that there are parents with big hearts that want to adopt. All babies are God’s. Why is skin tone a big deal for some?
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:32pm
  I think that EastInfection is correct. There is a proportionally larger supply of black babies up for adoption compared to black couples that want to adopt, compared to the supply of white babies up for adoption and the white couples that want to adopt. I’m not sure if it’s because more white people adopt, or because more black people give up their babies. All I know is that there are people that wait years to adopt a healthy white infant, but there isn’t as much demand for black infants.
  
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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:32am
Racism is ugly and wrong, but not illegal under the constitution. To fire him and make him a pariah is fine, but we need to protect free speech and thought of all people.

Racism against one race is no different than racism against another. To rule otherwise, is wicked and unjust.

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- JayCee
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:58am
  His free speech is protected.
  Assault is a crime.
  I would side with a parent who used deadly force in defense of their child.
  
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Timsincali
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:29am
Perhaps the mother should have controlled her precious little treasure.

Now, the guy should have never, if he actually did, struck the kid. She is culpable here as well. She is most likely a “holier than thou” “diversity is our greatest strength” liberal socialist progressive. Even if she is not, she failed miserably. She could have gotten up and gone to the rest room or if she was not permitted to do that placed a pillow and blanket around the child in order to shield the rest of her fellow passengers from the offensive assault of her precious angel. I friggin despise people who will not control their crumb crunchers. Again, Hundley is alleged to have done this and he should only be guilty of battery, period, if he is convicted on the evidence. The woman in my opinion is the aggressor and initiated the entire incident. Think about this… Had she looked into Mr. Hundley’s face and sincerely apologized for her failure as a parent he might have suffered her precious’ machinations and offensive wailing. Her pride and aire of superiority methinks prompted this entire affair. Just my opinion…. while I am still able to have one publicly.

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- Ghostian
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:01pm
  Wow! It’s the woman’s fault? You really need to spend less time commenting on blogs and revealing your disturbing ignorance to all. Not that you don’t have the right to be a total jerk, but most people don’t usually advertise that they are. Blankets, pillows, are you suggesting she should have smothered her son with a pillow? Can’t help but notice that you seem to be sticking up for the racist drunk who thinks hitting crying children is how you stop the noise. Please, do us all a big favor.
  Never have children. Come to think of it, I would suggest you don’t have any contact with pets either.
  
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- pfmpm
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:04pm
  Concur.
  
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- CALLMEMSGT
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:05pm
  @tim- You are an idiot! My guess is that you don’t have kids. I also suspect that had you been on the flight, you would not have had the stones to grab the old drunk by the lip, twist hard to get his attention and then make him aware that if he touched that little kid again he would be leaving the plane with his teeth in his pocket.
  
  I don’t know how things are done in the land of fruits and nuts but where I come from, we don’t treat women and children like that-we protect them.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:10pm
  It’s probably a bad idea for you to ever share your opinions publicly.
  
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- pfmpm
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:29pm
  Should have said I concur with Timsincali. The woman’s complete disregard for the other passengers does not excuse the drunk’s reaction, but it was a “reaction” to her deliberately letting her child run wild. This was NOT about a mother desperately trying to help her child adapt to changing air pressure. It was a mother who flat didn’t care and let the brat run wild up and down the aisles the entire flight.
  
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- RedSpotinaBlueState
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:30pm
  Not to mention the article state that they were in the final desent….so I’m guessing that getting up and going into the bathroom was not an option.
  
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48Straights
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:23am
I guess since his name is not Alec Baldwin there will be no credit card commercials in his future as a reward for this stunt.

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bankerpapaw
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:13am
Babies cry. Slap one and they cry even harder. Something is wrong with this guy.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:18am
  More than booze, I agree.
  
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right field
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:11am
Glad they fired this loser. Hope he has enough $ in the bank to pay for this little guy’s college education. What a total idiot – no excuses for such behavior – Hundley is the definition of just how someone who is actually a ‘racist’ acts in public.
Wonder if Alex Baldwin will also be fired today by NBC for his “racist” remarks and actions in NYC yesterday??????

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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:23am
  Don’t hold your breath.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:01pm
  Fired from where?
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:11am
And not a person on that flight, including the mother, appears to have reacted to the incident.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:22am
  That is common in society. It is conditioned into us to sit down, shut up, and accept what is.
  
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- catty
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:01pm
  There were multiple witnesses.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:09am
If he had slapped my child, he wouldn’t be resigning because the bastard would be in a coma.

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chips1
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:06am
The man’s actions were to create a hateful incident and he should be prosecuted to the maximum. On the other hand, the parents are creating another hate filled child that will become obvious when he reaches the age to join a gang. They should not mention it and make a huge impression on his life. Children forget about bad things if the parents quit forcing the child to respond to something he isn’t aware of. It’s just promoting the Jackson, Sharpton agenda.

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jungle J
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:03am
Alcohol is such an asset to us.

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- SREGN
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:23pm
  The feds should ban alcohol. Oh wait a minute, they did. Didn’t work. All it did was create a huge gangster network. More people’s lives were ruined by the solution, than by the problem. The only thing we seem to learn from history is that we don’t learn from history. After the brilliant success of the alcohol ban, we had the brilliant successes of the recreational drug ban, the poverty ban (LBJ’s War on Poverty), and now they want to ban the guns we need to protect ourselves from the gangsters they’ve empowered and enriched with their bans. And, of course, the guns we need to protect ourselves from the biggest gangsters of them all: politicians. They will come to take your guns. And then when you can’t protect your property anymore they will take that. And then when they’ve taken everything you have, they will come to take your life. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Castro, and now Obama. All the same. You didn’t learn from history, and now you’ll become but history. Vaya Con Dios, my friends.
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:03am
Hundley will now sue the makers of Wild Turkey.

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wilbstal
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:01am
folks going overboard here, 1st amendment rights getting violated the N word. But is okay for otheres to have freedoms to Muder their baies called abortion, But no one can say a certain word.. stick it in your ass leftys

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:07am
  I think it was the slap that got him trouble. The word just grabs the headlines. For the liberal media, the word was worse than the slap.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:12am
  The first amendment only applies to the government. The private business was well within its rights to fire an individual who publicly embarrassed himself and by association the company that employed him. (Not that the government gives a damn about the first amendment).
  
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Mapache
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:56am
“Life is tough. It s even tougher when you’re stupid.” John Wayne

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huey6367
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:55am
Good thing I wasn’t on that flight or he (Joe Rickey Hundley) wouldn’t be alive in Atlanta.

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- jungle J
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:02am
  You seem to express some of his qualities in your comment.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:05am
  Except it’s a grown man he’s talking about, not a two year old you doofus.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:09am
  But I am not drunk nor would ever slap a baby. I am talking citizen’s arrest.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:12am
  @gonzo
  
  that you for stating the obvious gonzo
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:54am
Anyone on here ever been drunk enough to slap a baby? Wango? Encinom?

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:19am
  I’ve been drunk enough to slap both Wango & Encinom.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:25am
  Let me buy you a drink!
  
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- CloudNine
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:13pm
  Encinom everyday…and I don’t have to be drunk! Hey, where is Encinom? There’s usually a worthless comment by now.
  
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doomytram
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:53am
Don’t know anything about the story et al. but if Obama had a son he would look like her little son. I don’t know anything but what I’ve read here, but it sounds like some Barack & Holder should stick their noses in and make a federal case out of……PC, it’s the other white meat and what’s for dinner.

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- catty
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:49am
  would you react the same if someone slapped your baby?
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:37pm
  @catty
  
  I woudn’t be inconsiderate enough to bring a baby onto a plane to begin with. Or into a movie theatre or anything else of the sort. The fact that you can’t possibly control their crying is exactly why only a moron puts them in those kinds of situations.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:42pm
  So a question for you who think that you shouldn’t bring a 2 year old onto a plane. I’ve brought a 2 year old onto a flight before (we even flew business class, the horrors!). Dd was well-behaved, btw. One time we flew with our toddler, then 18 months, was because we were living in Italy and we were moving back to the United States. How do you propose one move from one continent to another without going on a plane? It’s not like they have ships to transport you across the ocean like they used to have in the 1800s (cruise ships are not the same thing), and you can’t drive.
  
  While I do believe that you should 1) teach your kids to be well-behaved in the first place, and 2) do all that is in your power to get your kids to behave in enclosed public spaces like airplanes… in some cases, people have to take their toddlers on planes.
  
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